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Not really thread drift, I mean there's Ethanol in alcoholic drinks!

Not sure alcohol is classed as addictive in the same way as nicotine/opioids/etc but rather some people are susceptible to psychological addiction or forming a dependency on consuming it. The difference being that stopping consuming things like alcohol/caffeen/etc generally make you an irritable dick for a few days/weeks while stopping taking a properly addictive compound causes physical pain. There's a strong case for limiting alcohol sales, I mean who's buying a 2.5l bottle of White Lightening as a sipping drink? But an outright ban's highly unlikely - if for no other reason than countries that have introduced alcohol prohibitions in the past have almost all seen increases in alcohol consumption and also increases in alcohol related medical costs (as black market hooch doesn't tend to uphold quite the same safety standards as legal stuff).

Yep, Cannabis on its own isn't actually addictive and doesn't have any significant negative health impacts - but is illegal. Tobacco is addictive and does have proven, serious negative health impacts - but had a stream of MPs opposed to plans to make it illegal in a phased in way that wouldn't impact current legal addicts. So you stand by the convictions of the Birmingham 6, the Guildford 4, Stefan Kiszko, or to bring it up to date (as the legal system really hasn't gotten much better) all those thieving sub postmasters? By extension if criminals were actually guilty I assume all the non criminals were innocent back in the day and it's only trial by TV that's recently found them guilty? People like Jimmy Savile, etc? There are no "Good Old Days" - or "Good New Days" either, just "Days".

Of course the flip side are things like; blue asbestos was a wonder material you could just cut and sand in an enclosed space, many police were happy to make the evidence fit the suspect not the other way around, cigarette were considered good for you, etc

Geez, can you imagine how some of the people who think the ULEZ is the end of the world would react if you sent them to Japan? Never mind the number of toll roads and low emission zones I think their brains might turn to jelly when they walked into the car showroom and were told they couldn't buy a car without proof they had a parking space!

Please stop reading the Daily Mail and those posts random people forward you on Facebook, neither are good for you. Yes, volcanic activity does release a huge amount of green house gases, always has, always will - but is us adding MORE GHGs going to be making thing better or worse? It's like having a paint chip expose the metal on your Triumph. Ignoring it won't make it go away and over time it will start to rust - but dousing it in salt water will make it rust faster.

Yea but there were the Boris bikes. They've been successful. Oh, hold on. That was all set in motion by Ken wasn't it but didn't hit the streets until Brois was in office and the press love an alliteration too much to NOT call them "Boris Bikes".

Actually London has some of the lowest per-capita personal transport usage in the country, quite simply because across much of London public transport options are so good you don't need a car - and a car's usually the slowest way to get from A to B. Stop falling for the marketing/PR story. HS2 was never about reducing journey times between London and Birmingham/the North West but about the fact the section of the existing, originally LMS route between London and Birmingham and providing access to the North West is at capacity. In short the train operators want to run more services on that route but there isn't any space to add more trains on the existing lines - and much of the route is boxed in with no room to lay extra tracks without massive compulsary purchases and demolitions...and if you're going to do that why would you do it on the slow, twisty, convoluted route the current tracks follow when you could put in a much straighter, modern high speed route - which has the side effect of being quicker and so reducing the journey time?

At a guess something like 0.9% of the worlds homicides occure in the UK so, by your logic we should do anything to try and reduce the numbers as it's not going to make any real impact on the total number of homicides? SOMEONE has to take a lead and so be able to speak from the moral high ground, saying "Yes you CAN do it, we have.". Question is, does the UK want to just be a country of sheep who follow or the world leader we like to claim to be?

Yep, London's air quality was (probably still is) below WHO 'safe' levels and was sited by the coroner in 2020 as making a "material contribution" in his ruling on the death of 9 year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah in 2013. At that point in time some piece of national legislation had been passed that made local government responsible for NOT breaching WHO 'safe' levels and so the Mayor of London had to do something to at least show steps were being taken or else the London Assembly would be facing a line of solicitors queuing out the door with claims for compensation. This of course gives us the almost comical situation of the Conservative party campaining for the Mayors job on the basis of him introducing the ULEZ, something he (or Shaun Bailey had he won for the Conservatices in 2020) had little choice about doing...due to national legislation passed by the Conservative government. And for the anti-ULEZ crowd I'm interested to hear what alternative solutions people on here can suggest to (mitigate the huge legal costs of not being at least seen to be doing anything to) tackle air quality that don't involve using the stick of charging polluters and using the money to fund the carrot of providing cheap public transport alternatives...

One bit I found very confusing was they had a chassis with a bent D/S hinge box and front chassis rail so to "save money" bought an entire Spitfire chassis for £250. A Spitfire chassis with a rusty D/S front chassis rail. To replace the damaged D/S chassis rail/hinge box, parts you can buy for less than £250... Ech?

You'd prefer the London Assembly to be spending significant sums of money on some rigid, inflexible system that would need to be completely rebuilt (at the same full cost of building the current system) should a future Mayor want to change things? I did enjoy watching the Conservative Mayorial election party political broadcast last night. There wasn't a single mention of what their candidate would do if elected just 100% "evil Khan", to the point I expected a video clip of James T Kirk going "Khan!!!!". And I have to say "their candidate" as the only mention of them was their name/photo being flashed up for 1s at the end so all I was able to take from it was they they were female.

While you probably don't need a relay with LED headlights it's not going to hurt to fit one. As for where to fit it I don't know the Dolly 1500 wire diagram but I'd bet there's a 4-way bullet connector just behind the front panel where a single feed wire splits into two wires, one to the left headlight the other to the right. Given where the battery sits I'd bet you can find a convienient bolt near it to mount a relay+inline fuse then you can: Unplug the current, single 'input' wire from the 4-way connector. Connect that to the input side of the low current/switching side of the relay (normally pin 86) + a new earth wire from the output side of the low current/switching side of the relay (normally pin 85) to a convienient earth point. The light switch now powers the relay switching circuit. Connect a new wire from the battery +ve terminal, via the inline fuse, to the input side of the high current/swiched side of the relay (normally pin 30) + a new wire from the output side of the high current/switched side of the relay (normally pin 87) to the newly vacated hole in the 4-way bullet connector. You now have a direct battery->fuse->relay->headlight circuit.

Do they also print an out-of-date phone number and the address the business was at 6 years ago? Like it or not, just like the 1/4 page ad. in the magazine a website is a marketing channel for the business, one that currently doesn't shout "We're compitent, reliable and keep an eye on the details". If you don't want a website/just an email address don't put the website address in your print ads!

Hey, could be worse. I mean you could have a full colour advert for your business on page 41 of the brand new look Courier magazine...including a website address that doesn't work. They aren't too far from me so I was going to check them out but not sure I'll bother if they can't even run a website.